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To: Shoot1st who wrote (1841)1/5/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra  Read Replies (2) of 13016
 
POlitics are for those too easily influenced and too flexible in their "convictions" It is also for those willing to please those who do nothing to please themselves.

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."

~ H L Mencken.

As I said.... dishonest morons.

Religion is for those who need a public topic to enhance their minds self portrait.

Worse, displeased and frustrated in their "pursuit" they have to make life miserable to those around, anybody.

"The liberation of the human mind has been best furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe--that the god in the sanctuary was a fraud."

~ HL Mencken

..... and they "must" be guilty of some sin, somehow....

What is shallow is frequently free of imperfections.

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."

H L Mencken
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